"Today evening, the IS militants cut three women's hands off for unknown charges," an anonymous source in the Nineveh province told the Iraqi News, while later reports suggested they were punished for using mobile phones.

Ecuador's government has been accused of becoming increasingly aggressive towards environmental activists. In 2013, the government shutdown one of the country's biggest environmental NGOs, FundaciÃ³n Pachamama, over a dispute over oil drilling in the Amaz

A brand new report reveals that 10 to 28 billion pounds of plastic end up in the ocean every year. That means there is 10 times more plastic in the ocean than we previously believed. Secretary John Kerry is already working with the international

An Australian petroleum company, Bight Petroleum, has received government approval to begin scanning near the Kangaroo Island coast for potential drilling areas. The scanning method uses compressed air to produce sound waves that can direct the company